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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01
Applying Fertilizers.

Mr.. E. Churchill of Hallowell, Maine,
expresses our views upon the above
subject. In the Mirror and Farmer he
says:
About half the fertilizers used are
about the same as thrown away. Dress
ing should be spread over the land, not
dropped in clumps. Some will drop a
fertilizer and kick little soil over it,
little thinking the very first tender roots
plunge right down into it and that the
seed is ruined. If that very same feed
had been spread ten inches to foot all
would have gone well, and in short
time the plant would have looked dark
green and rich from the fact that the
roots were reveling in an evenly-fed
soil. am satisfied we all fail, too, in
not mixing barn dressing thoroughly
enough with the soil. Some pillow the
dressing in so as to prevent drying up
and harrow or cultivate only little.
Why not get the ground about smooth
and then spread the manure and har-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01
How TO Secure Heavy Yields Of
Strawberries.

First, we should use only such varie-
ties as will readily respond to gen.
erous treatment. Varieties which have
feeding and fruiting capacity equal to
one and half quarts per plant on the
average should be chosen. Having
such, plant on land thoroughly MANFRED
with the best horse manure, or its
equivalent, at the rate of at least one
hundred tons per acre, in two previous
applications, well mixed with the soil.
The soil should be good strong loan,
either with good natural or artificial
drainage. Having these conditions, let
the land be in mellow condition to plant
as early in July as your plants can be
had. Take primary plants and plant in
rows two feet by one and half, or two
feet by fifteen inches, according to the
strength of the variety. After planting
nip all runners as often as they start.
Hoe as often as needed up to freezing.
After the ground is frozen mulch well
for the winter, not removing till the
ground ceases to freeze nights; then
remove all the mulch carefully, and
when the ground is in good condition
to work give shallow hoeing and good
NCCulbS. w llCli lllC II 10 lit,ii SlON IL
replace mulch enough to secure perfect
cleanliness; the plants will now touch
both ways in many places. At this
juncture, if drought occurs, irrigate.
With the Jewell for the main, and
Sharpless for the first, sixth, eleventh,
etc., yield of from four hundred to
five hundred bushels per acre should
be expected of large berries. Ground
well worked for at least two years
should be chosen in order to avoid the
white grub. In order to keep any va
riety up to its maximum stock plants
should each year be selected from plants
which are not allowed to fruit, and
which are under generous culture. 1t
will be readily seen that when plant has
borne two full quarts of fruit.its consti-
tuition has been taxed too heavily to
give strong runners for new plants.
We avoid this by cutting off all blooms
as soon as the buds show on our propa-
eating beds. We do this not only with
the Jewell, but with all our varieties.
Again, as rule, we allow our plants to
fruit but once. We do not expect to
strike twelve twice on the same set of
plants. Again we deem it, as rule, a
foolish expenditure of time to clean out
an old field of plants; better turn the
plants under and rotate with other
crops.-P. N. Auger, IN Michigan Hor-
Hcu1tlrjSt
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01
Growing Colts i'm New England.

Those who believe that we cannot
grow colts as fast in New York and
New England as in Kentucky will be
interested in the account of an expert
ment in colt-feeding related to us few
days since by Mr.. A. G. Carroll,
merchant of Warner, N. H. Mr.. Car
roll raised filly last year by " Almont
Eagle" 2:2O; dam by " Smiths Hon
est Allen" Mr.. Stephen G. Pattee, a
townsman, also raised a FLY by " AL
mont Eagle" About December LIST
these FLIES were weighed and both
tipped the beam at three hundred
twenty-five pounds. A month later
they were again put upon the scales,
when it was found that Mr.. Pattee's
had gained siXty-fve and Mr. Carroll's
twenty-five pounds. Mr.. Carroll,
gentleman who does not like to be out
done when it can be prevented by fair
means, then tried an experiment by
way of feeding, and when the fillies
were weighed, thirty days later, the
scales showed that his had made a net
gain of eighty-fve pounds, or nearly
three pounds day. During February
she gained sixty-five pounds, and in
March gained another siXty-five pounds,
making a net gain of two hundred
fifteen pounds in ninety days. The
agents by which this wonderful result
was accomplished were four quarts of
skimmed-milk given at two feeds, morn
ing and night, three feeds daily of
ground oats, a two-quart dish full at a
feed, and all the good rowen hay she
could eat. During the daytime the
filly ran in an open yard when the
weather was pleasant, and during
stormy days was hitched under an open
shed where she could get plenty of
fresh air, but was protected from the
snow and rain. At night she was
hitched in stall four feet wide. A
colt by Vittoria," he by " Admins
TRAITOR" from daughter of " Almont,"
fed and treated in the same manner
as above described, when ten months
old stood fourteen hands high and
weighed six hundred ninety pounds,
showing a gain of three hundred fifteen
pounds since coming to the barn last
fall. They have been kept in a warm
stable nights, but the windows have
been open from two to three inches.
Pure air is just as important as plenty
of feed in growing colts.-American
| CulticdtOr.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01
Prayer.

If we pray for any earthly blessing
we must pray for it solely if it be
Gods will, if it be for our highest
good" but for all the best things we
may pray without misgiving, without
reservation, certain that if we ask God
will grant them, for what we desire we
ask, and what we ask we aim at, and
what we aim at we shall attain. No
man ever yet asked to be, as the days
pass by, more and more noble, and
sweet, and Observation-Disclosures man
ever yet prayed that the evil spirits
of hatred, and pride, and passion,
his soul-without his petition being
granted, and granted to the letter.
+. W. Fdrrdr.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01
mural ano BeIigiuus.
How Soon We are Forgot.

When at last the golden bowl is broken,
And we lay the worlds toys away;
When the solemn farewell words are spoken
And comes the closing Of the day;
When the busy earth recedes in distance
And we see the still green plot
The last sad mile-mark of existence
We know we shall soon be forgot
All could we from the shadowy portals
Come back to where once have been,
And see once more times waverng mortals,
While we ourselves remained unseen,
Would the strange vision please or pain u.s.
While viewing each familiar spot2
Would IL once startle or constran us
To see how soon we are forgot2
There would he the grave, all green and smiling,
And childhood sporting on the grass;
And busy men on their way to toiling,
Scarcely seeing IL as they pass
There would be the lane, the street, the river.
And our old. well-remembered cot;
But we would know, without much endeavor,
How long 1t takes to he forgot
Roll on, old river, we winds keep blowing,
Sing on sweet birds, as is your way;
Trees and flowers do notlcease your growing,
Aud men keep moving night and day.
know the sad song We are all singing
Times wheels will move when thou art not,
Ships will keep sailing and bells keep ringing,
But this is thine-to be forgot" -Erchange
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01

A FLAT CoNTRADICTIoN.-S one
has told you that your catarrh is incur
able. 1t is not so. Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy will cure it. 1t is pleasant to
use and always does its work thoroughly.
We have yet to hear of case in which
it did not accomplish cure when faith
fully used. Catarrh is disease which
it is dangerous to neglect. A certain
remedy is at your command. Avail
yourself of it before the complaint as
sumes more serious form. Sold by
all druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01

animal matter to stay in it. Now, mas
culine friends, do not make your wives
see to this, but tend to it yourselves,
as you value the lives of your dear
ones. One may live over damp,
filthy cellar for years and not pay the
penalty; he may bury every child
within a week. Pure air, sunshine
and pure water are the best prevent
ives of disease. Make the air of homes
cellars and ally as pure as possible. y
Neeu York Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01

The CAUSE OF CoNsUMPTIoN.-
Scrofula, manifesting itself in blotches,
pimples, eruptions, salt rheum and
other blemshes of the skin is but too
apt by-and-by to infect the delicate
tissues of the lungs also and result in
liberation, thus ending in consump-
ton. DR.. Pierce's " Golden Medical
Discovery " will meet and vanquish
the enemy in its stronghold of the
blood and cast it out of the system. All
druggists sell it,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01

JOSEPH" said merchant to his
clerk, "your character and all your
future usefulness and prosperity de-
pend upon the way you pass your even
ings." Truel 1t is a young mans
evenings that tell upon his life.
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advertisements.
Three PecuIiarities

Hoods Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier
ana regulating medicine, is characterized by
three peculiarities, namely
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The result is medicine Of unusual strength
and curative power, which effects cures here
tofore unequalled. These peculiarities belong
exclusively to Hoods Sarsaparilla, and are
, 1887-12-23
IN THE FRENCH cEMeTeRIes.
Tint Fav"ritc Emblcm, the Everlasting
Ilower, hurcrsahcd by tho Glass Bend.

Tint Favnritc Emblem, the Everlasting
Flower, superseded by tho Glass Bead.
The everlasting flower, which used TO
be the EIyoritc emblem of mourning in
the French cemeteries, has now been
almost superseded by the glass bead. At
the recent festival of the dead, TO every
person who carried n wreath of immor-
telles to the cemetery a hundred carried
wrcaths of beads. Those who along the
shores Of the Mediterranean gather the
everlasting flowers to be sent to Paris
must b. sorcly tried by this change of
custom. There is a little town called
OlliaUlcs, near Toulon, whose inhabitants,
about ., 900 in number, have for many
years earned their living by collecting the
everlasting flowers on the sun scorched
hills and preparing them for
Care must be taken to pick them in the
bud, for if the intlorescence is advanced
the seeds will ripen afterwards, and the
50 called flower, which botanists describe
very differently, will fall TO pieces. There
il still n certain demand for immortellcs
iii Paris, for there are workshops in the
Isoquctte quarter, where women are con-
stantly employed in making them into
wreaths, crosses, etc. This is usually
done by fastening the heads of the flowers
upon n foundation of tightly packed
straw.
But, as | have already stated, it is the
bead wreath that is now n Ia mode. The
change is not one for the better. The
immortelle, although it is one of natures
sham flowers, is, like the amaranth, n
poetic emblem of eternity. That it de-
Gays, those who went to the cemeteries
on All Saints or All Souls had ample
evidence, but it will last n few years
without looking very shabby. 1t, there
fore, imposes no great tax or expense
upon mourners to put a fresh wreath over
tho old one as the latter wears out. The
bead wreath is without beauty and with
out any of that association of poetic and
religious idea which gives an e%mblematic
value. 1t is simply an economical expe-
dent; glass beads do not wear out, and
when they are strung upon wire that does
not rust they remain where they are
placed year after year, quite unchanged
by wind and weather.
The French ara practical people, and
.hey appear to have come to the conclu-
sion that the best emblem of Immortality
to put upon n tomb is made of glass and
wire. The reasoning may be sound, but
the taste is detestablc. The bead wreath
is Il lamentable invention, on a par with
that of the metallic flower which is TO be
seen in n pot on many n grave in the
Paris cemeteries. The French are I'M
doubleday a nation of highly cultivated
taste; but their decorative sense has an
inherent tendency to break out into vul-
garity and tawdriness. We sec this in
their c buildings, like the Grand
Opera house, where unity of design and
noblcncss of proportion have been utterly
sacrificed to the ilashy adornment that
the crowd mistakes for art. And yet
there is no country in the world that
contains so many superb examples of
pure architectural taste as Franco
Paris Cor. Boston Transcript.
, 1887-12-23
Taking Life Too Hardly.

A sprightly Frenchwoman, driving
down Broadway lately, said: every
man we meet looks as if he had gone out
to borrow trouble, with plenty of it on
hand" Baron Won Lehren, n famous
scholar who visited this country, OBJ
served the same popularity in the ma
tional temperament. THE Americans
are the best fed, the best clad and the
best housed people in the world; but the
most anxious. They hug possible calam-
ity to their breasts, " he wrote of us.
Our Scotch cousins, who nave the same
propensity for brooding over imaginary
troubles, preach against it in many shrewd
proverbs. Mover cross the bridge till
ye come to the water" THE man who
turns his fire into smoke will never be
warm. youths Companion.
, 1887-12-23

The tracks of the Russian railroads have
a width differing from those of the Prus-
sian roadS. The cars of Prussian lines
cannot, therefore, run through TO Russian
lines, and vice versa. That is why every
traveller must change cars at the frontier.
Whenever tho imperial family of Russia
passes that point in winter n viaduct is
built leading from the Prussian carriage
to the imperial waiting rooms at Wir-
ballen, the Russian frontier depot. Such
n viaduct is o constructing. 1t is made
Of stout wood, covered all owe with thick
felt yelled under copious folds of rich
carpets and curtains, lest the sensitive
skins of their majesties and their Off
spring, just risen from the measles,
should feel a draught and catch n cold on
their run from the Prussian TO the Rus
sian saloon Car.-Chicago News.
, 1887-12-23

We live to learn. Every householder
has been worrying himself about the
plumbing in his residence, e~xpending
money to put the best traps that can be
procured under his sinks and basins,
making experiments with all sorts of in
ventions to consume the foul gases, pull
ing his wall to pieces to build air shafts
from the cellar up to the roof and six
feet beyond, and nevertheless living in
constant dread of d~iphtheria, typhus
fever and other diseases supposed TO DO
e~nGcndered by the escape of the deadly
sewer gas. And now we are told by doc
tors and learned professors that we have
been frightening ourselves with ghost
stories; that sewer air is comparatively
free from noXiOus gases and contains pro-
~portionately fewer micro organisms than
tho outer air of the same locality.
or course, unscientifc people will be
apt to discredit these conclusions and to
pronounce them "humbug." But what
arc we to do when thosa by whom these
conclusions arc reached offer proofs Of
their corrcctness2 How can we reply to
the matter of fact statements that ''scav-
cngurs who work in sewers arc generally
healthy and long lived;' that plumbers
seldom die of zymotic disease" and that
''sewer rats grow gray in their subter-
fanoan quarters?"
Such proofs of the nourishing qualities
OF sewer gas are u~nanswerable. Yet it
is questionable whether they will remove
the popular prejudice against the inhala-
ton of the elastic fluids of the house
drains, or induce people to abolish traps,
ventilators and air shafts, notwithstand-
ing the long lived ~scavengers, the healthy
plumbers and the venerable subterranean
rats. New York World.
, 1887-12-23

ats what thee'n spend, my son." said
q sage old Quaker, "not what thee'l
make which will decide whether thee is
to be rich or not"
John jacob Astor used to say that a
man who wishes to be rich and has saved
$40, 900 has won half the battle-is on
the highway to fortune. Not that Astor
thought SIC, 900, much but he knew that
in making and saving such a sum a man
acquired habits of prudent economy which
would constantly keep him advancing in
wealth. The habitual small expenses,
which we are liable to regard as mere
%trifles, amount in the aggregate to some
thing serious. Ten cents n day is $36. so
q year, and that is the interest on a cap
ital of 5000; so that tho man who saves
ten cents n day only is SO much richer
than he who does not, as if he owned a
life estate in a property worth $780,
Detroit Free Press.
, 1887-12-23

In her daily life Mrs. Dinah Mulock-
Craik was remarkably methodical.
Though many Of her works appeared in
periodicals, she would never under II
circumstances consent TO n beginning of
publication before the work was entirely
out OF her hand, and, what is very sigu-
lar, she is said during the whole course
Of her forty years labors never to have
begun writing anything which she did
not carry straight through, and it is be-
level that she has not left behind n sin
gle line OF unfinished work intended for
publication. Indeed, everything she over
wrote with the view TO publication has
been published. London News.
, 1887-12-23
Tho Travelling Dyspeptic.

The dyspeptic traveller is n scowl in
transitu-an incarnation of the misery
which repels company, whether loving it
or not. He is n fit of sickness On legs
nm incipicnt horror always threatening to
break forth. AS you look Mt his frown-
ing countenance you feel that if he has
not murder in his heart he has in his
stomach, and the two organs are not so
very far away from each other. He
loathes all the incidents of his tour, and
apparently goes to one place merely be-
cause he is Disguised with another. lie
GtrcwJ criticism wherever he looks, and
would havr made the world with its pres
CTj suglacc on the inside if he had been
li>ra the contract.-Wil Carleton.
, 1887-12-23

In the combination, proportion, and pre-.
paration of its ingredients, Hoods Sarsa.
parilla accomplishes cures where other pre-
parations entirely fail. Peculiar in its
good name at home, which is a tower OF
strength abroad. peculiar in the phenome,
nal sales it has attained, Hoods Sarsapa.
lila is the most successful medicine for
purifying tho blood, giving strength, and
creating an appetite.
, 1887-12-23

A man who claims to have tried it
time and again says that if you pass two
or more men talking on tho street, and
listen for n chance word rs you go by,
that word will be "dollars, " or money"
or some word Of a kindred Specification.
He has found it so in nine cases out OF
ten.-Philadelphia Times.
, 1887-12-23

Spanish hog meat Hld W~ostphalin hams
are said to owe their peculiar excellence
to the swine being fed on mast, which our
limited forests CuunO to extent allow.
1t is said that IL peck Of acorns n day, with
n little bran, will make Il hog increase one
poundin weight daily for two months To-
gether Time
, 1887-12-23

"Eo,y, here is something you'll like"
said the manager of the tile works, rs he
was showing some ladies the process Of
manufacture: Texts of Scripture OF tiles
for mantcl ornamentation.' "Oh," re-
piled Mrs. Fauglc, eve often heard Of
textile manufactures, but / never saw
them before. It'd Bits.
, 1887-12-23

Results from imperfect digestion. The
cause lies in the torpidity of the liver. A
regular habit of body can be secured by
taking Simmons Liver Regulator to aid
digestion. to stimulate the dull and slugg-
ish liver, and rid the system of excessive
and poisonous bile. The Regulator cor
reefs acidity of the stomach, cures dys-
pepsia and insures regularity of the
bowels alike free from laxity or c~ostive-
ness.
, 1887-12-23
SNA

MA and reliable Medicines arc the best
WV o depend upon. Acker's Blood Ell
ixir has been prescribed for years for allim-
p~uritics of theB Blood. In every form OF Scrof-
ulous, Syphilitic or Mercurinl diseases, 1t is
invaluable. For Rheumatism, has no equal.
DR.. w. N. Hunt.
, 1887-12-23

The largest stock of fine brandies. old
WHISTLES, choice hqueurs and superfine
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
, 1887-12-23

In Europe thrifty trees and good crops
Of peaches have been secured from gratis
upon the hawthorn.
, 1887-12-23

FERRIS MOVES HoUs Es
BOG Fifteenth street
, 1887-12-23

Unlocked for-The tack you pick up
with your foot.
, 1887-12-23

Engraving in all its branches Is done at
ZEHNEP BUEoHNER T. Co.'s.
, 1887-12-23

NJ NO\\ would enjoy your dinner
wv and aro prevented by Dys-
IPepsia, use hcker's Dyspepsia Tablets.
They are a positive cure for Dyspepsia, In
digestion, Flatulency and Constipation.
W. guarantee them. 25 and 90 cents,
DIR. W. N. Hunt.
, 1887-12-23
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